2022 Chinese New Year Celebration at the Hsi Fang Temple, Lego Edition

The Building

This set is a miniature replicate of the Hsi Fang Temple of the San Diego Buddhist Association in San Diego, California. This set (just like the real Hsi Fang Temple) has three floors. It has the distinctive icon on the front face of the building.

這套是加利福尼亞州聖地亞哥市西方寺的微型複製品。這一套（就像真正的西方寺一樣）有三層樓。它在建築物的正面有獨特的圖標

First Floor

The first floor of the building has the main entrance, dining hall, and the temple’s kitchen. After the prayer service, attendees would often stay afterwards for the vegetarian food and socialize in the dining hall.

建築的一樓有正門、食堂和寺廟的廚房。法會結束後，參加者通常會留下來享用素食並在齋堂社交。

Second Floor

The second floor of the building is the main service hall where many of the temple’s prayer services are held. The main hall contains shrines where devotees follow the venerables in their chant of the prayer service.

建築物的二樓是主要的大眾共修的地方，許多寺廟的法會共修都在這裡舉行。主殿內設有佛殿，信徒們在這佛殿中跟隨尊者唱誦祈禱儀式。

Third Floor

The set also has a third floor featuring a rooftop garden. The real temple does not have this rooftop garden.

該套裝還設有帶屋頂花園的三樓。真正的寺廟沒有這個屋頂花園。

Exterior

Construction

The construction of the Hsi Fang Temple Lego set begin in 2017 and took 3-4 month to construct, most of the time waiting for parts to arrive.

The Hsi Fang Temple Lego set was the first Lego MOC set that I created. Since this was my first set, I wanted to start of with an easy build and Hsi Fang Temple was the perfect “guinea pig” because the exterior of the building is fairly square. The interior of the set was more complicated to build and took majority of the construction time. I wanted to mimics after the real temple. The set must have the second floor main prayer hall and the first floor kitchen and dinning area. For the exterior, I added the distinctive golden buddha icon and the driveway fence.

Arrival of the Lego parts from the Lego online store. After weeks of waiting from when the order was placed, the Lego pieces has finally arrived.

Building of the Buddha statues. Since Lego does not have a lot of golden pieces, most of the buddha statue parts has to be custom made and painted. Normally I would not paint the pieces, but this was the exception. The buddha minifigures also has to be customized. Lego does not have golden minifigures, however they do have golden minifigure key chains. The buddha minfigures was actually created from dis-assembling Lego keychains. Other hair and accessories has to be custom made and painted.

Custom made and painted hair and accessories pieces

Making of the Maitreya (Happy Buddha) minifigure.

The four buddha figures of the temple.

The three floors of the Hsi Fang Temple Lego set.

Hsi Fang Temple Brick Set